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Friday, December 9, 2011

I've been having an awful time getting SpEL to register in my JSF .xhtml pages. I just want to do a simple

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However, my project would give me an error saying that '(' was unexpected. This was despite the Spring Documentation saying that SpEL is the default expression language.

I made some head way when I put the following into my spring configuration xml:

This should work with JSF 2.0, but my project uses JSF 1.2 so I got a cast exception since JSF 1.2 uses the org.springframework.binding package instead.
The following should work with JSF 1.2 (I'll test this soon).

Thursday, December 8, 2011

An article at TheServerSide grabbed my attention violently: it was claiming that your professional "half-life" as a programmer is at 35. This was immediately disturbing since it took me until 28 to really land my first professional programming job.

From reading the comments it seems that the consensus is that the person was basing his experience solely off of Google, who has a notorious youth-culture, and that if you keep your skills current you should be just fine.